Posted on 09/08/2017 2:41:09 AM PDT by SMGFan
In a candid interview in 'New York' magazine, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio sounds like a full-blown communist.
If you are one of the millions who passes through New York City via the Cross Bronx Expressway, you have seen up close the devastating impact of New York Citys rent controls. As you grip your steering wheel on the poorly maintained expressway and look at the terrible conditions of the tenements all around, you see scenes that for a moment could make you believe you are looking at a bombed-out city in Europe after World War II, not 21st Century America.
Sadly, the root causes of urban decay do not penetrate the consciousness of New York Citys mayor, Bill de Blasio. New Yorkers are suffering under rent controls, and yet, the mayor is gearing up for still larger battles against the laws of economics.
In a candid interview in New York Magazine, de Blasio wants us to believe that the residents of New York are now all central-planning socialists and communists:
If you are one of the millions who passes through New York City via the Cross Bronx Expressway, you have seen up close the devastating impact of New York Citys rent controls. As you grip your steering wheel on the poorly maintained expressway and look at the terrible conditions of the tenements all around, you see scenes that for a moment could make you believe you are looking at a bombed-out city in Europe after World War II, not 21st Century America. Sadly, the root causes of urban decay do not penetrate the consciousness of New York Citys mayor, Bill de Blasio. New Yorkers are suffering under rent controls, and yet, the mayor is gearing up for still larger battles against the laws of economics. In a candid interview in New York Magazine, de Blasio wants us to believe that the residents of New York are now all central-planning socialists and communists:
I think people all over this city, of every background, would like to have the city government be able to determine which building goes where, how high it will be, who gets to live in it, what the rent will be. I think theres a socialistic impulse, which I hear every day, in every kind of community, that they would like things to be planned in accordance to their needs.
de Blasio wants us to believe that the residents of New York are now all central-planning socialists and communists: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Well Trotsky was dispatched, so can de Blasio.
Commies often feel the urge to purge.
de Blasio will go, he isn’t the right color.
Give him a raft so he can paddle to Cuba.
In Việt Nam even the "Communists" are practical people. When they see that socialist methods aren't going to bring them Utopia or even feed them, they chuck them out. After a few hungry years they understood that starvation wasn't doing them any good at all, they freed agriculture. Bit by bit after that they freed all sorts of commerce.
This guy really creeps me out. Of course, all liberals do, but he is a very insane one.
How did New Yorkers let De Blasio happen to them?
I too would like the world to be planned in accordance with my needs. But I don't see why I should have to live in Mayor Bill's dictatorship. I think he should live in mine.
The Cross Bronx exhibited an urban dystopia in the 60s.
When he wakes up, he can see one.
Let me know when de Blasio moves his family out of Gracie Mansion and into a project in the Bronx.
Yeah. Robert Moses split the burough in 2. Dad was was a cop in Fort Apache. Things were ‘going South’ fast. He saw the writing on the wall and moved us to central Long Island.
But it’s following us and it’s time once again to move after 50+ years . To ‘America ‘.
He was elected with a small number of New Yorkers bothering to vote and sadly it looks like he’ll cruise to reelection.
As recently as May, polls showed NYC voters approve of that loathesome marxist.
Considering it's NYC, is DeBlasio wrong?
[This guy really creeps me out. Of course, all liberals do, but he is a very insane one.
How did New Yorkers let De Blasio happen to them?]
LOL, they’ll re-elect him.
With all due respect to FReepers in NYC and its environs, Warren and NYC deserve each other.
Actually, if you go into those tenements, you’ll see a lot of them have been wildly updated with high-end appliances. Some are really nice. (I know, I’m always looking for another apt.)
Also, the traffic and snow storms really do a number on the roads in this popular city. This is not to exonerate either Bloomberg or DeBlasio who stunk and stink!
He lives in Bk’lyn. He was forced into Gracie Mansion which, like Bloomberg, is beneath him.
de Blasio is commie scum. Embraces a system that murdered millions of people. Incredible. And they voted for this trash in NYC (New York Cucks)?
What’s his relation to Raul di Blasio?
“New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio sounds like a full-blown communist.”
You mean he isn’t one?
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